Sabbath SoulSpa
An Alternative Shabbat Morning (Shachrit) God-Optional Prayer Circle, led by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie.
Recharge your ritual reality at this everybody-friendly, God-optional meditative & interactive contemplative circle for body and soul, inspired by the Jewish Sabbath liturgy and ancestral wisdom, with an engaging offering of grounding, gratitude, poetry and open hearted conversations to lift up healing and hope, towards more compassion and peace.
Social activist and storyteller, writer and community leader, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him) is the Co-Founding Spiritual Leader of the Lab/Shul community in NYC and the creator of the ritual theater company Storahtelling, Inc. Israeli born, he’s been living in New York since 1998.
He is Co-Chair of the Board of Rabbis for Human RIghts, 2026 Inaugural Recipient of Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah Fellowship.
He received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016, the 39th generation of rabbis in his family — the first one to be openly queer.
Rabbi Amichai is the star of Sabbath Queen, Sandi DuBowski’s award-winning documentary film, 21 years in the making, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2024.